Real Estate Capital USA Once Again Names Morrison Foerster as the Law Firm of the Year

Morrison Foerster’s Real Estate Group has been selected as “Law Firm of the Year” (the only legal category) in this year’s Real Estate Capital USA Awards. The awards spotlight lenders, borrowers, advisers, and deals that best represented the U.S. real estate debt market in 2023. This is the third consecutive year MoFo has been named as the winner in this category. Real Estate Capital USA is published by PEI Media, which is also the publisher of PERE: Private Equity Real Estate.

The lawyers in Morrison Foerster’s Real Estate Group are experts in a wide range of commercial real estate debt and equity transactions, including all types of complex real estate finance, purchases and sales of real estate assets, complex equity investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, leasing, asset management, and the structuring and formation of joint ventures, real estate funds, and other investment vehicles for the development, ownership, and operation of real estate. The team has significant experience with all major property types and represents a variety of prominent real estate lenders, including banks, investment banks, mortgage REITs, life insurance companies, and debt funds. The group is especially well known for its expertise with large syndicated term and construction loans, CMBS, and deals involving multiple layers and types of debt, e.g., mortgage debt and one or more forms of subordinate debt, such as mezzanine and EB-5 loans.

Morrison Foerster has one of the largest and most sophisticated real estate financing practices in the United States and is involved in some of the largest and highest-profile commercial real estate transactions across the country. The team also acts as a go-to resource for clients navigating the distressed real estate landscape. Many lawyers in the group have established prominent reputations based on their significant roles in previous downturns, and they are again actively handling major distressed matters for key clients. In an era in which the real estate industry is facing significant challenges, Morrison Foerster’s Real Estate Group strives to provide clients with exceptional legal representation, notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs, or time constraints of any transaction, and whether the transaction involves “healthy” or distressed situations.

This is one of several recognitions recently received by Morrison Foerster’s top-shelf global real estate practice, which is consistently ranked by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and many other ranking organizations. In addition to winning in the Law Firm of the Year and Law Firm – Transaction of the Year categories in last year’s Real Estate Capital USA Awards, it was named by Law360 as a Real Estate Practice Group of the Year in 2020. Similarly, the global head of the group, Mark Edelstein, has been named “Real Estate MVP” four times by Law360 in recent years, was named a Real Estate “Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal, and was featured last year as a winner by Connect Media in its “Lawyers in Real Estate” awards (for being one of the top real estate attorneys across the United States).